{"id":10461,"date":"2015-12-13T03:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2022-08-05T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T18:13:53","slug":"sv-raya-frans-swart-ned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/portraits\/sv-raya-frans-swart-ned\/","title":{"rendered":"SV Raya &#8211; Frans Swart NED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16 YEARS and 70.000 Miles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Koopmans-43-Kopie-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Koopmans 43 Kopie\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11701\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Peter,<br \/>\nIn 1992 I bought from you a Pacific Plus for our Koopmans 43ft.centreboard. My wife and I are back now from a 16 years sailing around the world trip. We have done around 70.000 miles and the Pacific Plus has done at least a 60.000 miles without any problem under all circumstances.\u00a0 You hardly can believe it, but its the truth. We are 77 years old and without the help of the windsteering the trip should have been impossible. So, we are very thankfull that you have designed such a reliable piece of equipment.<br \/>\nGreetings\u00a0Frans <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 YEARS and 70.000 Miles Dear Peter, In 1992 I bought from you a Pacific Plus for our Koopmans 43ft.centreboard. My wife and I are back now from a 16 years sailing around the world trip. We have done around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/portraits\/sv-raya-frans-swart-ned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits","category-word-of-mouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10462,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}